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February 2017 Books
February 2017 Books
Le Flambeau School of Driving
By Peggy Senger Morrison. Unction Press, 2016. 314 pages. $15/paperback; $10/eBook. Rarely have I read a book focused on our…
Reviewed by William Shetter
February 2017 Books
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press, 2016. 315 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. One of the most troubling aspects of our…
Reviewed by Pamela Haines
February 2017 Books
The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers
By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in…
Reviewed by Bill Chapman
February 2017 Books
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Revised and Expanded Edition)
By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 352 pages. $22/paperback; $16.99/eBook. The back cover of Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual…
Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar
Enlarging Our Circle of Love
By Margaret Fisher. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 440), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. A physician, organic gardener, and member of Baltimore…
Making a Portrait of Jesus
By John Lampen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 441), 2016. 33 pages. $7/pamphlet. Many have found their way to the Religious…
February 2017 Books
Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
By Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Fordham University Press, 2016. 256 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Here is a memoir written in 1960 but…
In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2017 Books
Resolving Difference—in our ways of speaking about God or the ultimate reality
By Rex Ambler. Quaker Universalist Group Pamphlets (number 35), 2016. 28 pages. ÂŁ2/pamphlet (see qug.org.uk). North American Friends are familiar…
In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2017 Books
Words
By Harvey Gillman. The Friend Publications, 2016. 56 pages. $9/paperback (available from QuakerBooks). British Friend Harvey Gillman deserves to be…
In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2017 Books
Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success (Revised Edition)
By Linda Seger. Haven Books, 2015. 279 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Friend Linda Seger takes on the ever-relevant questions of personal…
In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand
The Journal of George Fox
1831 edition, edited by T.H.S. Wallace. New Foundation Fellowship, 2015. $15 plus shipping/CD-ROM. This CD-ROM is searchable! So you can…
February 2017 Books
New England Wakes and On the Grand Account
By Clint Hull. Self-published, 2015. 283 pages. $14.95/paperback. This volume contains two stories of seventeenth-century New England; the first one…
In Brief review by Karie Firoozmand
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Le Flambeau School of Driving
February 1, 2017
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
February 1, 2017
The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers
February 1, 2017